Urban Outfitters Rips Designer’s Panda T-Shirt

For the past year, I’ve been struggling to get my e-tee shop off the ground. Madapollam.com has 4 original t-shirt designs that I made myself. I’ve been using Myspace.com and Livejournal as avenues to advertise my site.

I’m sorry, but it’s the SIDEWAYS aspect of this design that is a dead giveaway that it was stolen. That and the fact that, once again, the Urban Outfitters design is crappy compared to the original. Note that they are also on a roll as to (a) turning the designs they steal 180 degrees, and (b) making them look faded. It’s obvious that Urban Outfitters’ designers are no-talent hacks who have to steal their designs from others, and then copy them badly, to boot.

I’m sorry but that is not even close to design theft. The concept is similar, the actual design is less similar. A stylized panda with bamboo is not exactly an original concept. If you think it is, then perhaps you stole my company’s panda tee shirts from 15, 8 and 2 years ago.